It bulges in the middle 16000 light years thick, but out by us, it's just 3000 light years wide.
7 seconds sound clip from the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:13:33.246 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- All right. I'll tell you what. Listen to this.
- It bulges in the middle 16000 light years thick, but out by us, it's just 3000 light years wide.
- We're 30000 light years from galactic central point. We go round every 200 million years.
- And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.
- The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz.
- So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth.
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